Tips for PCS7 WINCC

1. Create your own WINCC add-on, make development,
troubleshooting and making changes easier.
Using VBA for WINCC, create your own menu like this:
Develop generic forms that you can use multiple times:

2. Create your menu in @Global.pdt, make it automatically loaded when graphic editor is
launched:
Now you can create your own collection of tools, here is some ideas:
- compare PDLs
- open PDLs (with filter)
- Dump used tags in dynamic and event
- Export/import to tag logging configuration
- Create cause & effect PDL automatically from excel or source files. I have done
it, cut down the engineering time for drawing cause and effect pages.

3. Screenshots from run:
Selecting PDLs:
File save dialog:

4. Progress Form (with doevents handler to allow abort):
Exporting TagLogging configuration: